by Peter Boyles | Jan 30, 2017 | Blasting with Boyles
As a little guy growing up with black and white television in Pittsburgh, I always thought the greatest thing on TV was professional wrestling. Today, as an old guy, I believe the greatest thing on TV is still professional wrestling.
I know all the news that I get — like Archie Bunker — comes from the National Enquirer, and the only real sport left is professional wrestling.
As a highlight of my life, as a young boy, disc jockey and a professional wrestling fan, I reached out to then local professional wrestling promoter the late Gene Reed, to see if I could get any professional wrestlers to appear on my show when they were in town.
I was the mid-day guy at the now defunct KAAT radio and hosted a mid-day show from the Yum-Yum Tree, a big barn like affair with restaurants inside, and lo and behold I got to interview the man I later found out owned the whole wrestling company, the late, great Verne Gagne. At that point, I could have died happy. You see, I was then officially called a “mark.” Wait, but what is a mark you ask? A mark is a person who believes professional wrestling matches are real. Some historians believe that the term dates back to a carnival term, when carnies would put chalk marks on a guy’s back so he was marked. And others would call a mark, a sucker. Other people believe it’s called hitting the mark which is a scam aimed at a sucker. And when it works, they hit the mark.
It’s the term that pro wrestlers and promoters use for people who buy tickets. Remember, these people are not considered fans or followers, they are simply marks. The wrestlers are only concerned with being paid, smirk at the marks, and when I finally got to do my first job as a ring announcer at Denver’s old Auditorium Arena, a couple of the guys and Verne “smartened me up.” Now I was on the inside and no longer a mark.
What strikes me now is how many people are marking for Barak Obama, George W. Bush, John Hickenlooper, Michael Hancock, The Denver Post, local news stations, and any politician that they think cares about them or their families.
Pro wrestling has two principal terms, one is called a “work” and the other is called a “shoot.” A shoot is real and everything else is a work. I am beginning to believe that Donald Trump became our president in a shoot and everything else is a work. Hancock’s and Hickenlooper’s Road Home is a work, George Bush’s war in Iraq was the biggest work of all time. Barak Obama’s life story is a total work. Are you starting to see the idea?
Sometimes the “boys” (what wrestlers call each other) use the term “smarks,” which is even more derogatory because they can point at you and call you that and you have no idea they are marking you. Another great pro wrestling term is called “selling.” Selling is to act as though you have been on the receiving end of a real fighting maneuver. The Denver Post leads the league. They have been selling for all of the above for so long they have no idea where real ends and work begins. Another term is called a “squash,” a huge mismatch where some heel (bad guy) takes some little face (good guy) and beats him up on TV. Everybody is selling, everybody is marking and no one is shooting. Now you understand the Train to the Plane. Another great term from the business, is called “switch the heat” or “pass the blame.”
And last, but not least, you have “workers” and a term called “work rate.” Those are both positive terms. It’s the pace of a match and the skill level of the wrestler. Ask yourself for real, how many real workers are in Front Range media and politics? I leave you with one more term that I was told about, it was the greatest definition for a wrestling match I had ever heard. It’s called a “Broadway.” It’s one hour long, everybody works very hard and it ends up a draw and they are rare and far between. We haven’t seen a full Broadway in this city for a long ass time. Andre the Giant was not 7’4”. But what the hell. Michael Hancock never bought a hooker. Ring the bell.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Dec 22, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
… and State of Colorado could not do anything as stupid as the things they have done in the past . . .
If you recall, when John Hickenlooper became the Mayor of Denver, he launched a program that he titled “The Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.”
The Ten Year Plan plan not only didn’t end homelessness, but the newest federal figures show Colorado’s homeless rate is increasing at one of the higher rates in the nation. So like a degenerate gambler, Hickenlooper announced “I’m doubling down!” When he declared his original war on homelessness, his generals were his Chief of Staff Roxanne White and John Parvinski, head of Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Their stupidity when it comes to the issues of homelessness can only be matched by the governor himself. Conspicuous by his absence was the late Bob Coté, the head of Step 13, who in the war on homelessness was a combination of George Patton, Black Jack Pershing, and Dwight Eisenhower all rolled into one.
In a recent radio interview with my colleague Craig Silverman, Chuck Plunkett (the editor of the editorial pages of The Denver Post) said he had never heard of Coté or Step 13. But Plunkett was willing to endorse one of the most world class, stupid, ill conceived, asinine, ridiculous, spending programs the city that invented the train to the plane has ever seen — that further tripped down the yellow brick road i.e. taxing marijuana to end homelessness.
When John Hickenlooper’s 10-year program began, they set up give collection boxes all over the city, as well as, fake parking meters at DIA, for people to contribute to Hickenlooper’s great leap forward. When former Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher did a first blush audit of the plan, there were all kinds of misuse and missing monies and even how much had been collected was unsure. I have heard numbers between $32 million, $40 million, $50 million, but no one knows. So, the only real purpose of Hickenlooper’s Ten Year Plan was to give six figure incomes to Hickenlooper’s cronies with absolutely no accounting for itself. He now asks for more, much more. So, I ask you to ask yourself, what did you get for those tens of millions except more crime, more homelessness and more sadness.
John Hickenlooper, according to The Denver Post, has a plan for dealing with homelessness that The Denver Post hopes lawmakers will take seriously. What is it, you query? Taxing pot to build homes and take care of homeless people. So all that Denver’s Ten Year Plan has just created a bird feeder for as many homeless across this country that can get to Denver.
Look at 16th St Mall crime figures before the Ten Year Plan began. Look at the safety of the Cherry Creek Bike Path before the clarion call of John Hickenlooper. They are so much worse today. Like birds to a bird feeder, these druggies and drifters, street alcoholics and mentally ill arrived in droves because John Hickenlooper will do for them what they won’t do for themselves (take care of me).
So now, does anyone believe that $12.3 million to be raised from marijuana taxes will build 1,200 housing units for homeless alcoholics? No one in the media is asking who will clean and maintain those units, who will pay the utilities on those units, and who will feed the occupants.
The sadness on the streets of Denver can be stopped by using Bob Coté’s proven methods; sobriety and work, and work and sobriety. Bob was never listened to by any of these idiots in the past, I don’t expect them to listen now. But apparently, according to The Denver Post, the city’s public safety agencies, cops, fire and sheriffs, are going broke. Whatever you do, don’t help them with this money. Rather create an even larger problem and sadness. As Bob Coté would say, you are helping the homeless commit suicide on the installment plan. They are committing suicide one day at a time. For God’s sake, don’t let these immoral fools continue these ridiculous programs. There is really nothing more to say.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Nov 21, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
If you have been reading my award-winning columns in the The Glendale Daily Planet, I as Clark Kent, have had infinite fun pointing out the hypocrisy that reigns throughout the Mile High City.
Denver, my personal Metropolis, has become laugh out loud for the mainstream media’s inability to get a grasp on the obvious. I have a couple of cases to make. Let’s begin with the insignificance of Denver Broncos Brandon Marshall explaining why he will now stand for the National Anthem. As you know your Denver Broncos were playing Sunday night against the Oakland Raiders when the announcement came down that Brandon was going to stand, and the network cameras, in polar opposite to when Brandon took a knee, stayed focused on a standing Brandon.
Standing right next to Brandon was “Kubes,” aka head Coac
h Gary Kubiak. It should remind anyone who spent any time reading Soviet history that when the May Day parades took place in Moscow, Western Kremlinologists would know a person’s importance by how close they were allowed to stand to Joseph Stalin. If Russian General Georgy Zhukov was in favor he would be pretty close to Uncle Joe. On the other hand, if he were absent or his place taken by the head of the KGB, Lavrentiy Beria, you know Georgi was somewhere in the deep do do.
The question is why is “Kubes” standing next to Brandon and what significance does that play? And reading why Brandon chose to do so, never mentions that Brandon told lies about what happened to him at the hands of the Miami police, has never given a plumb nickel to any foundation like he promised, and to a high degree of probability never took a Denver police car ride along. And now just returns to the upright position. The only conclusion I have is that somebody, somewhere, in a much more honest media maybe, has the goods on Brandon and Uncle “Kubes” wants to protect his player. Way to go hard-hitting Denver press corps.
But a far more devastating and sad story is that of the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Law Firm climbing into bed with the Saudi Arabians, to use all of their powers to knock down any attempts by victims of 9/11 to sue the bastards for their involvement in that horrible day. The law that has been passed in this country is JASTA — Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, that will allow families of those killed or injured during the 9/11 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts. Remember, 15 of the 19 murderers on 9/11 grew up in Saudi Arabia.
Since we now have been able to read much of the suppressed 28 pages we now know of the tremendous involvement of members of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia on that terrible day. The trail of Saudi money and influence overwhelmingly shows the Saudi’s role in 9/11. The Saudis say they have no connection to the hijackers but the 28 pages prove otherwise. The Brownstein firm now has a lucrative contract with the Kingdom to the tune of $100,000/month. When one of their toadies, attorney Alfred E. Mottur, called our radio show he told me that the Saudis and the Brownstein law firm are just doing this to protect American veterans for being put on trial in Pakistan or Turkey. Right. And Norm Brownstein has a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
We have seen the power of the Saudis in Colorado before as referenced in my July 2016 column in the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle titled “Al Turki and King Rats Trip to Saudi Arabia.” The column illuminates the reach and power of Saudi Arabia to have Colorado Attorney General John Suthers make a trip to Saudi Arabia to explain the plight of Homaiden Al Turki, whose name has turned up many, many times as an accessory to the 9/11 attacks.
We don’t have enough column space to discuss the spider web of influence that the Saudis have in our state. But as long as newspapers, radio news and Denver’s mommy newscast let it slip by, Brandon Marshall and Denver’s “Most Powerful Law Firm” will simply continue what they do best — telling lies in America. Up, Up and Away!
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Oct 21, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
It came to pass in those days, that the Republican Party has long doomed itself, and headed to the trash heap of history feeds up like the Phoenix bird out of its own ashes, emerges our hero, the modern Siegfried Republican stalwart Donald Trump. As I am writing this column in the middle of October I am about to predict everything that is important on your ballot as you read this and want to brag about being a winner as opposed to being a loser and making intelligent choices, follow along.
I watch Republican party moralists, other newspaper people and other radio talk show hosts, many of them I know and I know their private lives as well, seizing the moral high ground of Donald Trump’s language and alleged assaults on women. Suddenly, the left and some laughable Republican former office holders, decry Trump’s behavior — the smell of that permeates the entire state.
These are the people that say nothing about rap music, 50 Shades of Gray, any other sleazy thing that slithers out of Hollywood, and please never forget how many Democratic and Republican operative powerhouses slipped down to any one of the four locations of (“Players and Sugar”) to get their pay to play with a 22-year-old hooker. These are the same people seizing the high ground on Donald Trump. My prediction, Donald Trump will be beaten and beaten handily. The good news is I hope the Republican Party rots in hell. They do not deserve your vote. If you knew the private lies of these self-important men it would gag a maggot. As they call it further down the ballot, there are some really great young men running as Republicans that I would love to see win. Tragically, they will also lose.
In this last year, I have met two of the finest young men I know who are brave enough to climb into these congressional races. George Athanasopoulos and Casper Stockham both running for Congress are decent, fine young men, dedicated hard chargers who will get their hats handed to them as well. I have gotten to know these men, travelled with them, know their families and know their hearts and they will be beaten by Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette, respectively. But if you could find your way and you live in the 1st or the 7th, vote for these young men. At least perhaps we can light a fire that these other creeps can’t put out.
This has been a very angry year for me. I have watched the media’s foolishness, the lack of integrity of political parties, the influence of big money and what will eventually come to an ultimate great sadness. The week I am writing this, Donald Trump is spending his time tweeting about Saturday Night Live and Paul Ryan. Hillary Clinton on the other hand, dances in the moonlight, seems overly prepared for debates and frankly, beats Trump hands down. We have had bad electoral outcomes in the past. In this country, the late great Barry Goldwater who scolds said if he won there will be rioting in the streets of America and young Americans would die in Vietnam. He of course, lost and those things, in fact, happened.
I have no idea who Hillary Clinton is and, of course, no one knew who Barrack Obama was. Unfortunately, I believe we will find out who Hillary Clinton is.
Other things on the ballot — for God’s sake, if they have anything to do with RTD, give them nothing. You need only to recall “the train to the plane.” Isn’t that enough.
Wait there’s more:
- Amendment 69, the Colorado Care Initiative, that dog won’t hunt. Have you people learned nothing about Obamacare.
- Amendment 70, minimum wage, just say no.
- Amendment 71, requirements for initiated constitutional amendments, say yes to that. And stop the little creepoids from walking up to you with clipboards in Cherry Creek and asking you to save the whales.
- Amendment 72, cigarette and tobacco taxes, vote that down also. If you are not smart enough not to smoke, I can’t do much for you.
- Proposition 106, medical aid and dying, for God’s sake we do it for our dogs.
So let’s get a wrapup. Trump’s got no shot, so vote for him. Stay as far away from the Republican Party as you can. Stop these fools from getting more of your tax dollars, especially RTD. And hope for the best next time. And while we are at it one more … the only person worth their salt in the Senate Race is Lily Tang Williams. She grew up under the Maoists and the Red Guards. Here’s a woman who knows where we are headed. I wish she was running for Governor.
Let’s see how good I am about predicting.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Oct 3, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
I wou
ld be willing to bet every last dime I have, I have ever had, or I will ever make, that If Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick were to kneel down on the sidelines to protest Muslim Islamic immigration into the USA or infringement of Second Amendment rights, neither the League, the President of the USA, or major media would defend them or, for that matter, allow it.
Political correctness as I have said many times on my radio show, and in this award-winning newspaper, is a death knell to the United States of America. We have extremely wealthy, spoiled men living in a nation run by a black president protesting what a rotten country the United States of America is. And now it has filtered down to other NFL stooges, high school teams and, if my guess is right, into fan stands at a theater near you. About a month and a half ago, your Dallas Cowboys asked the league to place a sticker on Cowboys’ helmets for the 2016-2017 football season in support of police officers murdered by a sniper this summer in Dallas. The League said no.
As Joseph Farah has written, members of your LA Rams football squad ran out on the field last year in St. Louis with their hands up spreading the lie that Michael Brown (remember: “Hands up, don’t shoot”) was an innocent victim of police brutality in Ferguson — and again no League consequences. NFL players have scrawled in black markers the words “I can’t breathe,” referring to Eric Garner, the black man who died in NYC, supposedly at the hands of brutal cops. Does anyone remember Reggie Bush being punished for that? I am, like so many thinking people, realizing what political correctness has done to destroy this country and its allegedly hard-hitting media. Kaepernick, on a national level, is being treated like a Beatle, and did anyone ever witness the fawning by Denver’s mommy media of Brandon Marshall?
I was the only one, in the Front Range media to point out that Century Link was advertising Brandon Marshall, in a Broncos uniform with the snake head horse picture, bundling Prism TV and all of your NFL games.
Enough of our audience, getting contact information for Century Link from our KNUS website, began calling Century Link and by 4 p.m. that afternoon, the company kicked Brandon Marshall to the curb.
I personally want the Denver Broncos, The Denver Post and Century Link to know, I take full responsibility for what happened to their spokesperson. I watched enough of the Monday Night Football games with the San Francisco 49ers on it and local sportscasters and media outlets treating Marshall and Kaepernick like heroes.
And now we discover, earlier this summer Marshall claims in Miami, in an unnamed restaurant with three unnamed people, he was manhandled, tackled and shackled and had a taser put on his chest by five of Miami’s finest. Who knows what happened to his three unnamed friends but in any event they just wanted Brandon. He claims that they promised to release him if he didn’t tell anybody. Of course, if the story is true he just broke his word, but what kind of idiot would trust Brandon in the first place. Secondly why has it taken this courageous social warrior so long to tell the story.
There, of course, would be reports and police communications that would be public records if he wanted to have the public truly believe him.
In an act of incredible generosity, Brandon has announced he will donate to some yet to be determined charity, $300 for every tackle he makes this season which will total $30,600 based on his performance last year. Considering he makes $8,666,666 base salary this year it is the equivalent of a $350 contribution for someone making $100,000 a year. How about showing you’re, in fact, a real social warrior Brandon, and you tithe 10% to as many of the of socially conscious like to do, or $866,666. This would leave you a mere $7.8 million to live on this year. How about it your wonderfulness.
For a man who says he wants to stop the hate and promote love why did you get fined $24,309 for a cheap shot on another African-American (Cam Newton). I thought that black lives matter.
Now it’s important to remember that during professional sports in Denver, baseball teams can empty dugouts and fight on the field, professional football players can remove their helmets and swing at one another, soccer players intentionally trip one another and your Colorado Avalanche, well that speaks for itself. Anybody see the cops get involved? The fact that the Chief will meet with him just simply shows the Mayor, Manager of Safety and the Chief of Police approve of Brandon Marshall’s social warriorism.
Now, here are my questions. By what metric will Brandon Marshall be satisfied that progress will be made over a problem he can’t define? Not one brave combat ready Denver media member will ask Brandon Marshall that question or “Brandon, when will you stand again?” or “When will you be satisfied that your nebulous demands have been met?” Not a chance in hell — those people would become overnight racists.
So when linebacker Marshall was told that his sponsors were dropping him, his quote was, “I won’t lose any sleep over that” — WHAT DEDICATION. What a sense of pride he must have taking people’s money to be their spokesperson. What a bunch of lay downs run the NFL. We know, political correctness does not tolerate free speech. The National Anthem and the U.S. flag hardly represent every racist thing in the United States of America. The flag and the anthem represent the Constitution, the freedoms and the rights. The good of our country outweighs the bad more than any country in history. Hey Brandon, go try it in North Korea. I don’t know about the rest of you, this reflects on the ownership of the Denver Broncos as well. The “blood of the city,” my dying rear-end.
Happy Halloween.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Aug 29, 2016 | Blasting with Boyles
The Butcher, The Baker and the Stooges ruin any notion of justice or political correctness in Colorado (you thought I was going to say the Candlestick Maker).
I have written many times and talked endless hours on radio shows about what happened to a very religious baker named Jack Phillips. Jack, if you recall, owns a very small bakery that goes by the name of “Masterpiece Bakery.” He was adjudged by the politically correct police, a borderline criminal Nazi, because he refused to make a wedding cake for Charlie Craig and David Mullins who I believed stalked him and set him up for their civil rights lawsuit. Last August an administrative law judge from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled his business would be shut down and/or fined out of existence if he did not start designing gay wedding cakes and that ruling has been upheld in the courts.
As I do on the radio show, I 100 percent disagree with Jack Phillips’ beliefs concerning gay marriage. I am 100 percent for gay marriage, gay adoption, or any so-called right, as an old straight white guy like me should be for the rights for all of us. But, Lady Justice takes another turn. Which brings me to what I believe is a suicide pact this country has signed with itself — political correctness. Let me take you back in time again, this time to Fort Morgan. The evil incarnate this time is Cargill, the giant multinational meat packer and agri-business employer.
Muslims who worked at Cargill, walked off the job for reasons of their faith. The Somalis claimed that on December the 18th of last year they didn’t get a chance to leave the production line to pray. Cargill, the Somalis say, put restrictions on their prayer breaks. The council on American Islamic Relations and Denver’s Rathod Mohammedbahi Law firm, told us that the Muslim employees are hardworking and should be allowed to pray at work in accordance with their “deeply held religious beliefs” (remember those words). Cargill, after allowing this practice, put a halt to it. Again, I ask you to remember that Jack Phillips had never changed his policies, but was relying on his deeply held religious beliefs. From a statement from the Somalis’ law firm, “fear and prejudice cannot be allowed to violate a nation’s founding principles that all may practice their religions free from prosecution.” Again like a broken record, remember those words.
On August 4, the State of Colorado, this time the Department of Labor, ruled that the 150 Somalis who actually quit their jobs and walked off, were now eligible for unemployment benefits from Cargill. The State said, “a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.” Further on in the court order, these words are written, “No person should be expected to choose between fidelity to their religion and their job. And it is important for you to know, that you, as the taxpayers of Colorado, are going to pay their claims. According to The Denver Post, this decision will cost Colorado’s unemployment fund nearly $1 million. Unemployment funds are funded by the state’s employers, i,e., you and your boss.
Now, let’s return to Jack Phillips and the case of Masterpiece Bakery. I have spoken with Jack many times. Jack, like the Somalis, has deep spiritual beliefs. And unlike the Somalis, never walked off the job.
Jack believes that God granted him creative abilities and that his Christian beliefs are opposed to gay marriage. Subsequently he will not use those abilities to create a wedding cake for gay men and women. Hold that thought. Jack will make, create and bake cakes, other than wedding, for gay people. Breads, cookies, brownies, cupcakes, any bakery product you can imagine. Jack is more than willing to sell to anyone, obviously including gay men and women. So, as they used to say in your intro college courses — let’s compare and contrast how Jack was treated by the State of Colorado and how Colorado treated the Somalis working at Cargill. Those words I asked you not to forget, such as, a company cannot force workers to choose between religion or their jobs, but the State can. And remember no person should be expected to choose between fidelity to their religion and their jobs. The workers claim they were denied prayer to their God and won their case. Jack Phillips claimed allegiance to his and was called a Nazi.
Conclusion; what have you learned? Cargill violated the greatest of all politically correct crimes, Islamophobia. Along with the fact that Somalis are sub-Saharan Africans, subsequently black. That’s the next worse political crime, racism. On the other hand, Jack is a white, male Christian and political correctness deems he has no rights other than being the perpetrator.
Give this insanity another five to 10 years. There will be more and more people charged with politically correct crimes. Eventually, the witch hunters will come for you. Do you recall Martin Niemoller? If you don’t, look him up. Have a nice day!
— Peter
